filesystems not properly unmounted

[Matthias Buelow]

Don Lewis wrote:

> Nope, the ext2fs problem is different.  It is caused by ext2fs holding
> persistent references to disk buffers that causes the kernel shutdown
> code to to think that not all the dirty buffers have been written to
> disk and skip unmounting all the file systems.

Can't that be changed in a way that the kernel checks that in a
per-filesystem granularity instead of seemingly global?  I mean, I can
understand that a marginal ext2 fs driver can cause problems with ext2
filesystems, but affecting other filesystems aswell in such a way is not
nice.

mkb.